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Weigel
Weigel is a German surname. Notable people with this name include: *Beverly Weigel (born 1940), New Zealand Olympic athlete *Christian Ehrenfried Weigel, German scientist *Christoph Weigel the Elder (1654–1725), German engraver, art dealer and publisher *David Weigel, American journalist and political commentator *Detlef Weigel (born 1961), German American scientist * (1927–1995), née Hofer, Austrian actress, married to Hans Weigel from 1951–1964 *Erhard Weigel, German scientist *George Weigel, American writer and religious commentator *Hans Weigel, Austrian writer *Helene Weigel, Austrian actress *Herman Weigel, German film producer and screenwriter *Jannine Weigel (born 2000), Thai singer-songwriter and actress *Jaroslav Weigel (1931–2019), Czech actor, writer, playwright, comics writer and painter *Johanna Weigel "Madame Weigel" (1847–1940), designer and publisher of dressmaking patterns in Australia *Ronald Weigel (born 1959), German athlete *Teri Weigel, American porn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Weigel
David Weigel (born September 26, 1981) is an American journalist. He works for ''Semafor''. Weigel previously covered politics for ''The Washington Post,'' ''Slate,'' and ''Bloomberg Politics'' and is a contributing editor for ''Reason'' magazine. Early years and background Weigel was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware. After moving to England in 1998, he graduated from the American Community School in Cobham, Surrey, in "the high Tory London suburbs" of the London commuter belt, in 2000. He moved to Evanston, Illinois in 2000 and received a Bachelor of Science degree in 2004 from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, with a double major in journalism and political science and a minor in history. While at college, Weigel wrote for ''The Daily Northwestern'' and was editor-in-chief of the campus's conservative newspaper ''Northwestern Chronicle''. In the summer of 2001, he also had a "fun" internship at the libertarian Center for Individual Rights. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Weigel
George Weigel (born 1951) is a Catholic neoconservative American author, political analyst, and social activist. He currently serves as a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Weigel was the Founding President of the James Madison Foundation. He is the author of a best-selling biography of Pope John Paul II, ''Witness to Hope'', and '' Tranquillitas Ordinis: The Present Failure and Future Promise of American Catholic Thought on War and Peace''. Career and personal life Weigel was born and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, where he attended St. Mary's Seminary and University. In 1975 he received a Master of Arts degree from the University of St. Michael's College with a thesis entitled ''Karl Rahner's Theology of the Incarnation in Light of his Philosophy of Transcendental Anthropology''. He has received 18 honorary doctorate degrees, as well as the papal cross ''Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice'' and the '' Gloria Artis'' Gold Medal from the Polish Ministry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jannine Weigel
Jannine Parawie Weigel ( th, ญานนีน ภารวี ไวเกล; born 30 July 2000), also known by the Thai nickname Ploychompoo ( th, พลอยชมพู, links=no), is a Thai singer, songwriter, actress, model, influencer, gamer, ambassador and Youtuber. She is of Eurasian origin. Early life and education Weigel was born on 30 July 2000 in Steinfurt, Germany, to a Thai mother and a German father. Her first name, Jannine ( th, ญานนีน, links=no, ), was from Hebrew, meaning "Yahweh is gracious". Her middle name, Parawie ( th, ภารวี, links=no, , ), means "sunbeam" in Thai. Her Thai nickname, Ploychompoo ( th, พลอยชมพู, links=no, , ), means "pink sapphire". Weigel has three elder brothers, born 1986, 1988 and 1990, respectively. She lived in Steinfurt until her tenth year of age and moved to Bangkok, Thailand, in July 2010. Weigel attended St Martin kindergarten and Regenborgen Primary School in Steinfurt, Germany until G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erhard Weigel
Erhard Weigel (16 December 1625 – 20 March 1699) was a German mathematician, astronomer and philosopher. Biography Weigel earned his M.A. (1650) and his habilitation (1652) from the University of Leipzig. From 1653 until his death he was professor of mathematics at Jena University. He was the teacher of Leibniz in summer 1663,Richard T. W. Arthur, 2014. ''Leibniz''. John Wiley & Sons. p. 16. and other notable students. He also worked to make science more widely accessible to the public, and what would today be considered a populariser of science. He concurred with Jakob Ellrod's "Mittel-Calendar", and with the advocacy of Leibniz and others, that the date of Easter should be based on the astronomical measurement of the spring equinox and the next full moon. He followed Jakob Ellrod to the Imperial Diet in Regensburg to advocate the use of the Mittel-Calendar or New Gregorian calendar. Timeline * 1625 born in Weiden in der Oberpfalz, son of clothier Michael Weigel and Anna W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detlef Weigel
Detlef Weigel (born 1961 in Lower Saxony, Germany) is a German American scientist working at the interface of developmental and evolutionary biology. Education Weigel was an undergraduate in biology and chemistry at the universities of Bielefeld and Cologne. In 1986, he graduated with a Diploma in biology for this thesis on Drosophila neurogenesis with the late José Campos-Ortega. In 1988, he moved to the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen. During his PhD work with , he discovered the founding member of an important class of transcription factors, the Forkhead/FOX proteins. In 1988, he graduated with a PhD (summa cum laude) from the University of Tübingen. Career and research Weigel began to work with plants during his postdoctoral research with Elliot M. Meyerowitz at Caltech, where he cloned the floral regulator ''LEAFY'' from ''Arabidopsis thaliana''. From 1993 to 2002, he was an Assistant and then Associate Professor at the Salk Institute for Biolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Weigel
Johanna Wilhelmine Weigel, née Astmann (11 February 1847 – 10 January 1940), known professionally as Madame Weigel, was a designer and publisher of dressmaking patterns in Australia. Biography Weigel was born on 11 February 1847 in Posen, Prussia (present-day Poznań, Poland). She was the second of five children born to August Astmann and his wife Emilie, née Sachs. She left for New York as a young girl, and became a designer for McCall's Patterns, where she met and married engineer Oscar Weigel (c. 1844Application for naturalisation: Oscar August Louis Robert Carl Weigel; National Archives online, accessed 6 March 2019. – 7 February 1915), born in Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany. They left for Australia aboard ''Mysore'', arriving in Melbourne on 4 March 1877. According to Weigel, she and her husband were in Australia on an extended honeymoon when she started cutting paper patterns for Melbourne friends who admired her dress sense. Within a year, with the help of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Weigel
Major General William Weigel (August 25, 1863 – March 4, 1936) was a United States Army officer who, throughout his long military career, served in numerous conflicts and wars, most notably towards the end of World War I, commanding the 56th Brigade of the 28th Division before taking command of the 88th Division in the war's final weeks. Early life and military career William Weigel was born August 25, 1863 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he grew up and attended school. He graduated from the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, New York, with the class of 1887, ranking 27th in his class. Among his fellow classmates included several general officers of the future, such as Charles Gerhardt, Ulysses G. McAlexander, Ernest Hinds, Nathaniel Fish McClure, Michael Joseph Lenihan, Charles S. Farnsworth, James Theodore Dean, Mark L. Hersey, Herman Hall, Frank Herman Albright, Marcus Daniel Cronin, George Owen Squier, Thomas Grafton Hanson, George Washington G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teri Weigel
Teri Weigel is an American pornographic actress, fashion and nude model and ''Playboy'' Playmate. Early life Weigel was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and grew up in Deerfield Beach, Florida. She began modeling while in her teens, appearing in the Saks Fifth Avenue catalog among other venues. Career Weigel appeared on the cover of the November 1985 issue of ''Playboy'', and was the Playboy Playmate for April 1986. She also appeared in a number of ''Playboy'' videos. She subsequently had several minor roles in mainstream film, including ''Predator 2'' and ''Marked for Death'', and made several appearances as "Jade" on '' Married... with Children''. She was the second Playmate to also appear in '' Penthouse'' magazine, after Ursula Buchfellner, November 1985. She worked for a time at the Bunny Ranch Nevada brothel until September 1998. Weigel was in a car accident in August 1990, in which she suffered severe neck and back injuries that required five operations. Unable to wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helene Weigel
Helene Weigel (; 12 May 19006 May 1971) was a German actress and artistic director. She was the second wife of Bertolt Brecht and was married to him from 1930 until his death in 1956. Together they had two children. Personal life Weigel was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, the daughter of Leopoldine (née Pollak) and Siegfried Weigel, an accountant-general in a textile factory. Her family was Jewish. She and husband Brecht had two children, Stefan Brecht and Barbara Brecht-Schall. Weigel was a Communist Party member from 1930. Career Weigel became the artistic director of the Berliner Ensemble on 16 February 1949. She is best remembered for creating several Brecht roles, including: Pelagea Vlassova, '' The Mother'' of 1932; ''Antigone'' in Brecht's version of the Greek tragedy; the title role in his civil war play, ''Señora Carrar's Rifles''; and the iconic ''Mother Courage''. Between 1933 and 1947, as a refugee from Adolf Hitler's Germany, she was seldom able to pursue her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beverly Weigel
Beverly Dawn Edith Weigel (born 16 August 1940), with her first name commonly misspelled as Beverley and since her marriage known as Beverly Robertson, is a New Zealand athlete. Mainly active as a long jumper, but also as a sprinter, she represented her country at the 1956 Summer Olympics, the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, and the 1960 Summer Olympics. Life Weigel was born in 1940 in Auckland, New Zealand. She received her education at Kelston High School (now Kelston Girls' College, but co-ed at the time). Described as a "phenomenal athlete", she won the New Zealand senior women's long jump title at age 15. This secured her a place on the New Zealand Olympic team for the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, and she is listed as New Zealand Olympian number 126. Of the nine track and field athletes who represented the country, she was the youngest at age 16. She competed in long jump and of 19 competitors, she came 7th. In 1957, she set a world junior r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Ehrenfried Weigel
Christian Ehrenfried von Weigel (24 May 1748 – 8 August 1831) was a Swedish-born German scientist and, beginning in 1774, a professor of chemistry, pharmacy, botany, and mineralogy at the University of Greifswald. Biography Born in Stralsund, in 1771 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Göttingen, having studied under Johann Christian Erxleben. In 1806, Weigel was ennobled and carried from then on a '' von'' in his name. He became the personal physician of the Swedish royal house two years later. Among other things, Weigel developed a cooling heat exchanger (German ) (1771), which was later improved upon by Justus von Liebig and then became known as the Liebig condenser (). Furthermore, the honeysuckle genus ''Weigela ''Weigela'' is a genus of between six and 38 speciesAll of the species listed in the 'Selected species' section are accepted by The Plant List, but most are still under review, and therefore subject to changes in status. of decid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Weigel
Julius Hans Weigel (29 May 1908, Vienna – 12 August 1991, Maria Enzersdorf) was an Austrian Jewish writer and a theater critic. He lived in Vienna, except during the period between 1938 and 1945, when he lived in exile in Switzerland. He was a lifetime companion of the Austrian actress Elfriede Ott. Biography During the time before the Anschluss of Austria, i.e. the annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938, he worked at Viennese cabaret theaters. After his return from Switzerland, where he lived in exile (1938 – 1945), he wrote critical reviews about theater plays for the Austrian newspapers ''Kurier'' and ''Neues Österreich''. Jointly with Friedrich Torberg he was responsible for the boycott in Austrian theaters of Bertolt Brecht whom he rejected because of Brecht's communist convictions. Between 1951 and 1954, Hans Weigel edited the anthology ''Stimmen der Gegenwart (Voices from the Present)'', which fostered young writers. Today, his name is used by the Subsidy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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